Anything, Everything, or Nothing At All

[PowerBook Pete, the Mad Mod]

Leopard v Crocodile!

[Jeff of Earth-J]

Oh.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

...and then there was THIS.

[Richard Willis]

At the time they really meant it. They got rid of all of the clown heads and IIRC were thinking of changing the name to "Monterey Jack’s."  I think the board of directors were embarrassed at the country club  into being ashamed of the Jack in the Box brand.

Later, they got smart and had a guy with a big round clown head throw a bomb into a meeting of the directors. (Pearl clutching ensued. They were supposedly promoting terrorism.)

Today the guy with the big round clown head is in all their commercials and is in charge.

[The Baron]

At the time they really meant it. They got rid of all of the clown heads and IIRC were thinking of changing the name to "Monterey Jack’s."  I think the board of directors were embarrassed at the country club  into being ashamed of the Jack in the Box brand.

Later, they got smart and had a guy with a big round clown head throw a bomb into a meeting of the directors. (Pearl clutching ensued. They were supposedly promoting terrorism.)

Today the guy with the big round clown head is in all their commercials and is in charge.

 

This is perilously close to being a plot synopsis of a bad 80's sci-fi/horror movie.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

..and then there was THIS.

[JD DeLuzio]

My niece and her fiancé have moved in. The nerdiest of our lot, they have combined and curated their collections in cabinets he made with his dad:

Relevant blog post here.

(sorry-- links to my blog bring up my photo. I am not a part of their collection!)

[The Baron]

I've wanted something like half a century to  see the  original Japanese versions of these.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

To a Thinker by Robert Frost

The last step taken found your heft

Decidedly upon the left.

One more would throw you on the right

Another still—you see your plight.

You call this thinking, but it’s walking.

Not even that, it’s only rocking,

Or weaving like a stabled horse:

From force to matter and back to force,

From form to content and back to form,

From norm to crazy and back to norm,

From bound to free and back to bound,

From sound to sense and back to sound.

So back and forth. It almost scares

A man the way things come in pairs.

Just now you’re off democracy

(With a polite regret to be)

And leaning on dictatorship;

But if you will accept the tip,

In less than no time, tongue and pen,

You’ll be a democrat again.

A reasoner and good as such,

Don’t let it bother you too much

If it makes you look helpless, please,

And a temptation to the tease.

Suppose you’ve no direction in you,

I don’t see but you must continue

To use the gift you do possess,

And sway with reason more or less.

I own I never really warmed

To the reformer or reformed.

And yet conversion has its place

Not halfway down the scale of grace.

So if you find you must repent

From side to side in argument,

At least don’t use your mind too hard,

But trust my instinct—I’m a bard.

[JD DeLuzio]

Forest City Comicon (I had a panel, but I took my camera):

 

[Tracy of Moon-T]

Jeff and I saw this exhibit today. 

 

https://youtu.be/yamebJtv_7E?si=4Tn5tOYqZgkgygMo